We often reserve storytelling’s basic elements—characters, plot, scene, theme, and dialogue—for long-form work, where they can take root and bloom through intensive research, reporting, and editing. News writing’s speed and rhythm can simply feel incompatible with narrative’s transportive qualities. But we can, and should, propagate storytelling shoots in short-form journalism too. This might involve—in a few precious words or sentences—painting expressive characters, quickly casting immersive scenes, or injecting key action sequences.
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